Sunday, March 19, 2017

The troubled people of war-torn Chambria are on the brink of starvation, and a delicate princess with a recurring nightmare is their only hope. Alexandra knows that her value to her country consists mainly in her ability to marry well, but when she is kidnapped by the rebels and taken to meet the man claiming to be both Chambria’s true king and her real father, her entire world falls apart. Will Princess Alexandra be able to untangle the web of lies and discern who is the true king and her father?

My Thoughts:

Poor sixteen-year-old Alexandra was thrown into a life of uncertainty not knowing whom to believe and who might be her friends or enemies. Her one solace was in taking care of baby Brandon. Fortunately for her Taleon was one who looked after, guided, protected her and helped her find out the truth about her heritage. This book was filled with a lot of details some were on the more graphic side but the romance was mild and of a sweeter nature. Alexandra's character stole my heart and I was hooked from the first page.

If you love Historical Romance this is a book you will certainly want to read.

Although this was book four in the series, with the introduction of characters at the beginning of the book I was able to quickly become acquainted with them and could read this as a stand-alone book.

MS. Gardner brought together the story of Lillian McGirth and Captian Marcus Buck with such attention to details during the 1817 era of the American, First Nations People, English and Spanish conflict in Spanish Florida that it will captivate your heart from the first page and will keep you turning the pages until the end. Marcus was sent by Lillian's father to bring her home and their journey is one you will not forget long after you have read the last page.

Now that I have read this one... I will go back and read the rest of the series.

Friday, March 17, 2017

Disclaimer: I received this Book from the publisher, Zonderkidz for free to read and review. I was not required to give a favorable review
only an honest review. All thoughts and
comments in this review are my own.

Eight-year-old Kerry
loves the ocean, and every few years she along with her parents and sister,
Margaret go to visit Aunt Jane and Cousin Jack who live near the beach.

This year Margaret
and Kerry were going alone, which made Kerry very sad. Cousin Jack and Kerry took the boat to the
beach where they found a sand dollar.
Jack patiently answered all of Kerry’s questions and then explained that
even though the sand dollar isn’t real money, it still has value because it
tells the greatest story of all—it tells the story of Jesus’ birth and the
Easter story.

Once you read this
story to your children they will never look at a sand dollar without remember
this story.

The illustrations
are so vivid and beautiful they are sure to keep even the youngest child
turning the pages.

This is a hard-cover
book with a beautifully illustrated dust jacket. This is a great bed-time story and would make
a great gift for the Easter season.

Disclaimer: I received this Book from the publisher, Zonderkidz for free to read and review. I was not required to give a favorable review
only an honest review. All thoughts and
comments in this review are my own.

About the book:

*The pictures are
nice size and easy to color.

*It has more than 60
favorite from the Old and New Testament

*Fun to color.

*Finished pages can
be easily displayed.

*Beautiful
illustrations.

This coloring book
is for children age 4-8. It is a great
basic coloring book with easy to color images.
This book is divided into sections with each section’s pictures specific
to a Bible Story. The pages to color
cover stories from both the Old and New Testament that children love to hear.

In my opinion this
is a great way to encourage your children to remember these Bible Stories. It would make a wonderful gift and give your
child hours of coloring enjoyment.

Disclaimer: I received this Book from the publisher, Zonderkidz for free to read and review. I was not required to give a favorable review
only an honest review. All thoughts and
comments in this review are my own.

From the Book:

The Bible is not a
fairy tale, but every great story happened “once upon a time”. “The Once Upon a Time Storybook Bible”
highlights powerful and inspiring stories from the Bible—including Noah’s Ark,
David and Goliath, Brave Queen Esther, the Birth of Jesus, Feeding the 5,000
and Jesus Resurrection.

The artwork and
illustrations by Omar Aranda will keep your child turning the pages as they
learn about the heroes of the Bible.

This Bible has a
beautifully illustrated hard cover. It
has a “presented to” page in the front so it can easily be given for a special
event or a just because I love you gift.
It covers the ageless stories from both the Old and New Testaments. There are 18 stories from the Old Testament
and 15 stories from the New Testament and has 144 pages. The stories begin with a scripture verse and
are short in length insuring it will hold your child’s attention from beginning
to end.

In my opinion this
is one of the best Bible storybooks for this age group I have read and reviewed
in a while and would highly recommend it.

Tuesday, March 14, 2017

Disclaimer: I received this eBook from the author for
free to read and review. I was not required
to give a favorable review only an honest review. All thoughts and comments in this review are
my own.

“Walking in the Spirit”
by Crystal and T.K. Chapin is a five-minute devotional geared mainly for women
from single to late in life. It is
one-size fits all. It is not intended to
take the place of deep Bible study but to encourage you take a few minutes a day
meditating on God’s word and promise. It
is easy to read, yet filled with thought-provoking points. It consistently points out that God wants to
be ever-present in all aspects of our life. It teaches why it is important to
encourage rather than tear each other down and to be submissive to God in all
things even to helping those in need and teaching your children by deed and action
how God should be put first in your life.

This is a
beautifully written devotional that I will read over and over again.

Thank you Mr. and
Mrs. Chapin for the wonderful reminders of what God requires of us through-out
this devotional.

Monday, March 13, 2017

For Elizabeth (Liz),
if coping with divorce from Bruce wasn’t enough, a year later her daughter
Lillian (Lilly) hasn’t accepted that her parent’s marriage is over either and
she now struggles with dealing with Lilly’s sullenness. Lilly blames her mom even though she doesn’t
know the real story.

On July 4th
Lilly is supposed to spend the night with her friend, Jess, but according to
Jess she never showed up and she didn’t come home. She just seemed to disappear. At first Liz thought she might be with her
boyfriend, Marcus, but he denied she was with him. The police didn’t seem concerned so with the
help of her neighbor, Cole, they launched a full-scale search to find out what
happened to Lilly and try to make sense of why.

The character of Liz
is so well developed as a mother; her story melts your heart as she struggles
to find her daughter and to keep life some-what normal for her son,
Jordan. With Cole’s help they search
tirelessly for Lilly and along the way learn to give it over to God.

This book shows the
great love of a mother, but also the greater love of God. This story will stay in your heart long after
you have read it. In my opinion this is
definitely a must-read. There are so
many twists and turns to this book, it will keep you turning the pages.

It is filled with
mystery, drama, intrigue, love, forgiveness and a little bit of reluctant
romance.

Disclaimer: I was given a copy of
this eBook for free by the author T.K. Chapin for review, T K
Chapin. I was not compensated for my review nor was I
required to make a favorable review. All
thoughts in this review are mine.

Ashford,
Vermont looks like a typical New England town, but it is far from that to those…
that are part of the underworld it’s known as Burntown.

As a
little girl Eva Sandeski, (Necco) was her dad’s shadow as he worked on his
inventions in his work-shop. He even had
plans that were stolen from Thomas Edison.
It was a machine that if built was supposed to be enable you to speak
with the dead. According to her mother
Lily, this is what got her father, respected professor, Dr. Miles Sandeski
murdered. Necco always thought this
claim was just her mother’s snuff-induced paranoia. Necco and her mother became part of the
underground at Burntown after the great flood and the murder of her father and
brother and it was here her mother became introduced to the powerful herb
“devil’s snuff” by the fire-eaters (a group of mystical women, living off the
grid). During another event of her
mother’s paranoia she warned Necco they were in danger of being found by someone
known as Snake-Eyes. She dismissed it as
simply a ranting until her mother died and then her boyfriend Hermes (Matthew)
was found dead. Suddenly she believes
her mother was right and she finds herself on the run from someone called
Snake-eyes.

This
book is definitely not for the faint at heart. Once you get all the characters
in place it will have you sitting on the edge of your seat, biting your nails
as you turn the next page. It has
suspense, murder and paranormal all wrapped together.

Disclosure:I
was given a copy of this eBook for free by the publisher, Double Day through Net Galley, blogger review
program, for an honest review. I was not required to write a
favorable review nor was I compensated for my review. The opinions in this
review are my own.

Disclosure:I was given a copy of this eBook for free by the publisher, Bethany House through Net
Galley, blogger review program, for an
honest review. I was not required to write a favorable review nor
was I compensated for my review. The opinions in this review are my own.

Once again Mary
Connealy brings us another wonderful Historical Christian Fiction romance.

I fell in love with
the Boden Family from the first page and cannot wait for the rest of the
series. Although this is book two in the
series, I didn’t have to read the first book to understand the characters,
however now that I have read this one, I definitely want to go back and read
book one and I can’t wait for book three.

Angie and Justin are
the main characters in this book. It is
fun to watch their love for each other grow throughout the book. This book is filled with adventure, mystery,
murder, forgiveness and love. What is
not to love about cowboys and romance?

This book takes
place in New Mexico Territory in the 1880’s.
Someone is trying to take the Cimarron Ranch away from the Boden Family
and they will not let anyone get in their way.
Not even friends of the family.
Will the Boden’s be able to protect their family and those they love and
not lose the land that has been in their family for years? That question and more will be answered as
you turn the pages of this wonderful book.

Disclosure:I was given a copy of this eBook for free by the publisher, Bethany House through Net
Galley, blogger review program, for an
honest review. I was not required to write a favorable review nor
was I compensated for my review. The opinions in this review are my own.

Jenny Bennett, a hospital nurse at US Army Base,
San Francisco in 1898 met the dashing Lieutenant Ryan Gallaher (Galahad) as he
recovered from an illness. Jenny’s
Galahad, touched a part of her soul she didn’t know existed and she fell
helplessly in love with him. Jenny was
from the wrong side of San Francisco and Ryan was a story-book hero.

President McKinley declared war on Spain and Ryan
was shipped out to join the conflict.
For six years Jenny waited to hear from Ryan and only received one
letter. She checked the missing in
action lists every week for all those years and was always relieved to not find
his name listed. Suddenly Ryan showed up
on base with a four-year-old Asian child.
Rumors were leaked that Ryan had deserted and spent the conflict living
in the lap of luxury on a Yacht in Japan.
Jenny didn’t know what to think but she no longer trusted Ryan. He had
way too many secrets and had lied to her too many times. She wanted to walk away and have him out of
her life, however that was not to be…Ryan was training Finn to take his place
in Japan as a US spy and he had an addiction for opium. Jenny was sent to Ryan’s country home to help
Finn beat his addiction.

Have the tissues ready because this is a book that
will definitely pull at your heart-strings.
It is an emotional journey for Jenny from the time she was nine years of
age, living on the streets. She was
befriended by Simon who took her in, raised her and sent her to nursing
school. She became a respected person of
the community, but that wasn’t enough, she was still distrustful of people and
didn’t know how to let God help her deal with her past and insecurities. This is a story of love, forgiveness, second
chances and faith, mixed together with mystery, spies and attempted murder.

Disclosure:I was given a copy of this Book for free by the publisher, Bethany House through the blogger
review program, for an honest review. I was not required to write a
favorable review nor was I compensated for my review. The opinions in this
review are my own.

I have never read a
Traci Peterson book I didn’t like and this one is no exception. All I can say is have the box of tissues ready
especially during the Whitman Mission Massacre.
Traci brings reality to the horror of the massacre not only through the
eyes of the pioneers but to the Native Americans as well. She shows how lack of communication can bring
so much destruction.

Grace Martindale’s
parents died and left her to raise her two young sisters, so she made a
marriage of convenience with the Right Reverend Martindale. He wanted to go west to minister to the
Indians but would not be allowed to do so unless he was married. It worked well for both of them. During the trip Reverend Martindale died and
Grace continued on to the mission with her sisters. Grace is blessed with the gift of herbal
healing, but often finds herself at crosshairs with Dr. Whitman, while at the
mission. He has no use for women
healers and lets her know the “savages” are his responsibility. It is here at the mission she meets Alex Armistead,
a French-American trapper. He not
only helps her to somewhat overcome her fears of the Native Americans but
encourages her to help doctor them.
During this time she learns to trust Alex, which is the beginning of a
budding romance.

This book will capture
your heart from the first page and you won’t put it down until you have
finished it. It is fairly fast-paced
which will definitely hold your attention.
It is filled with heartbreak, danger, love and forgiveness. If you are a fan of Traci Peterson…this is a
must-read book.